[ESS] ESS and .Rhistory

[Yihui Xie]

Hi,

Has this been changed in ESS 5.14? I still see .Rhistory even if I set
ess-history-file to be nil, which has been a pain for me for a long
time.

Thanks!

BTW, the trick from Erik works very well.

Regards,
Yihui
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Stephen Eglen
<S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Erik, Feng,
>
> Thanks for this -- I was blissfully unaware about this persistence of
> history across R sessions.  Howabout if we change the semantics of
> ess-history-file to be:
>
> nil -- do not attempt to read/write a history file
> t -- use the default naming scheme for loading the history
> "some.string" -- use this value as the filename.
>
>
> Stephen
>> Feng,
>>
>> On 04/20/2011 09:00 AM, Feng Li wrote:
>> > Dear list,
>> >
>> > I tried to change the ESS default R history to a permanent file so
>> > that ESS does not generate .Rhistory everywhere. I tried both
>> >
>> > (setq ess-history-directory "~/.R/history")
>> >
>> > and
>> >
>> > (setq ess-history-file "~/.R/history/.Rhistory")
>>
>> If I recall correctly, it's because of the way the ess-history-file
>> variable is set in the ESS code.  The following works for me:
>>
>>   (defun ei-no-rhistory ()
>>     (setq ess-history-file "/dev/null"))
>>
>>   (add-hook 'inferior-ess-mode-hook 'ei-no-rhistory)
>>
>>
>> where "ei" in the function name is just my initials.  See if that
>> works for you. You can change /dev/null to whatever you want.  There
>> may be a cleaner solution, but I was just happy not to find .Rhistory
>> files all over the place, which bother me greatly for some unknown
>> reason :).
>>
>> --Erik
>>
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